Night train route
Raja Tehran–Bandar Abbas
Tehran → Bandar Abbas · Iran
Raja Tehran–Bandar Abbas in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,286 km
- Fastest time
- 20 h
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Raja · Iranian Railways (RAI)
- Train
- Raja long-distance sleeper
- Countries
- Iran
- In service since
- 1995
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One of Iran’s longest single-train rides: ~1,290 km across the central desert past Yazd to the Strait of Hormuz, completed when the Bafq link opened in 1995.
How this line was checked
- The 408 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8276442 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 23 m); the longest stretch away from it is 11.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: RAJA Passenger Trains — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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